Weekly Wheaties 2416: Incognito Mode, Google, EVs, Fonts

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re: Incognito mode/InPrivate mode. The saying goes, "you can run but you can't hide." Given that, sounds like we can hide but we cannot run. Surprise - you can't hide after all. Wonderful. Like you said, not surprising. Still, it's disappointing. And I say that from behind a VPN.
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China introduces an EV selling for around 10K USD. Personally I'm not worried about China selling those in the US. They may try to do so, yet will probably (read: very likely) run into a tariff as a trade barrier. China will be attempting to sell all sorts of products in the US and EU in the near future, moreso than the last few years, IMO. Why? Domestic auto sales are a good indicator of health in that domestic economy since industrial & manufacturing "health" is baked into a domestic auto market.
Yeah, so what?
Domestic auto sales in China began to drop, noticeably drop, before covid. Saying that again, *before covid* China's domestic auto market started slumping. And has not recovered post-covid, even though China's post-covid timeframe ended later than the EU and the US. IOW, the continued slump in domestic auto sales in China is not a covid slump that's just about to end IMO. Put another way, China will be happy to dump products, including EVs, on Europe and the US to "bend the curve" [ahem] of slumping auto sales. That's where I think it is likely China will run into a tariff of some kind. Run into it regardless of the presidential election outcome in Nov. 2024. Not kidding. It seems both major candidates, when holding the presidency, were and are fine with preventing product dumping by a trading partner that is _not_ in NAFTA 2.0 or has a "friends and family" trade arrangement like the US has with Japan, Australia, and a few others.